APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 22: Café Flesh (1982)
The story of X may have been three years early, but the video revolution — driven, as all technology is, by sex — changed the world of pornography, moving it from the fleshpots of 42nd Street and dirty book stores into suburban living rooms. In 1982, there was still the glimmer of hope that the Golden […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 22: A Man Called Rage (1984)
Tonino Ricci — often using the Americanized name Anthony Richmond — was an Italian exploitation director and you know what that means. He jumped genres. From mob films (The Big Family), westerns (Bad Kids of the West) and White Fang ripoff after doing second unit on the original (Zanna Bianca alla riscossa) to sharks (Cave of […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 22: Rush (1983)
Tonino Ricci never met a genre he didn’t like or try to make a movie in, so when Tito Carpi — who wrote some of the best Italian post-nuke movies ever like Warriors of the Wasteland and Escape from the Bronx — brought a script that combined Max Rockatansky with John Rambo it was a perfect match. Rush is […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 22: Demain les mômes (1976)
Yvette and Philippe (Niels Arestrup) somehow escaped the end of the world, which was mainly caused by really loud noises, and have tried to start over again. Then she gets murdered and he tries to find humans anywhere, only to discover a group of small children. He believes that he can teach them everything they […]
April Movie Thon Day 22: When Worlds Collide (1951)
Oh, ye producing gods Richard D. Zanuck and Jerry Bruckheimer: for when one studio or producer puts a film into production, another will put their own version-of-a-theme into production. And the Byrdian “turn, turn, turn” of those film sprockets were burnin’ the same ol’ sunny bulb down upon the same ol’ celluloid long before the […]
Circle of Fear episode 16 “Earth, Air, Fire and Water”
When you have D.C. Fontana, Harlan Ellison and Richard Matheson working on a story, you know it’s going to be good. This episode of Circle of Fear has a community of six artists who discover six colorful glass containers within a storefront that has rent and location that’s too good to be true. Ellen Parrish (Joan […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 22: Fist of the North Star (1995)
Hokuto no Ken is one of the most important manga in the history, selling 100 million copies, consistently being picked as one of the best manga — and anime — of all time and making more than $20 billion in total revenue. And in the U.S., hardly anyone knows what it is. In fact, when […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 22: The Ultimate Warrior (1975)
There had been post-apocalyptic movies before — End of the World came out in 1916 — and the genre was already a big deal by 1975, following The Omega Man and Soylent Green. So when most people believe that end of the world movies started in 1979 with Mad Max, they’d been around long before. The Ultimate Warrior is pretty […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 22
For the twenty-second day of the B&S About Movies April Movie Thon, let’s celebrate a holiday created by a serial killer. April 22: Earth Day Ends Here — Instead of celebrating a holiday created by a murderer, share an end of the world disaster movie with us. But seriously, treat the planet right! All April long, […]
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